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I'm a well-known mainframe performance guy, with almost 30 years of experience helping customers manage systems. I also dabble in lots of other technology. I've sought to widen the Performance role, incorporating aspects of infrastructural architecture.

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Once in a while there comes along a simple coding enhancement that really kicks the story forwards.
This post is about just such a simple thing, as I think customer Performance people would benefit from it.
Consider the following perfectly ordinary graph heading (and ignore the grottiness of the font if you can).
I'd like to draw your attention to the portion if it in... [More]